2025 has passed, and I would like to make a brief summary of the year's investments, sharing the experiences and lessons learned. If I were to describe the investment behavior of 2025 in one Chinese word, it would be 'Buddhist'; if I were to express it in English, it would be 'hold'. There were very few trades made throughout the year, and the projects I initially believed in are mostly still held with some minor adjustments. There were also breakthroughs, as I entered the stock market, involving US stocks, Japanese stocks, and A-shares, but the performance varied greatly, and I also experienced the pitfalls of 'insufficient understanding.' Let's first talk about cryptocurrency. In the past two years, I have increasingly felt that the cryptocurrency market is undergoing a very different change, and this change cannot simply be explained in the same way as in the past with terms like 'bull market, bear market, cyclical rotation.' The old four-year cycle experience has been very effective in the past decade or so, to the extent that everyone subconsciously believed: as long as Bitcoin rises, money will inevitably flow into altcoins; it’s just a matter of time. However, in this round, you will find that things have not continued along this path. In 2024, Bitcoin surged, and many people naturally considered 2025 as the altcoin season, even expecting two rounds. But what actually happened was that the altcoin season did not appear, and instead turned into a continuous state of bleeding. Old altcoins are dropping one by one, falling deeply, with some prices even lower than the lowest point during the 2022 bear market; as for new altcoins, it goes without saying that not breaking even after going live is already considered a good performance. The era of tenfold or hundredfold gains right after launch is almost nowhere to be seen.
The bull that was once predicted seems to have come true (BNB surpasses a $100 billion market cap)
Yesterday, BNB first broke above $800, and BNB's total market capitalization surpassed $110 billion. The bull market predicted five years ago seems to have materialized today. On July 25, 2020, I first wrote about my long-term judgment on BNB in a public account, titled 'Long-term Judgment on BNB'; at that time, BNB's price was $18, with a total market capitalization of $2.7 billion. Subsequently, I wrote several articles supplementing the logic of a long-term view of a $100 billion market cap. In the 2021 bull market, BNB's total market capitalization exceeded $90 billion but did not reach $100 billion. This year, it has officially broken through. Looking back now, some of the logic has been validated, while some have been falsified, but overall, it can be considered a successful prediction. This article serves as a conclusion to the prediction made five years ago!
The BTC held by exchanges has decreased by more than 10,000 coins within the past 24 hours, meaning users have withdrawn over 10,000 coins. Since January 2024, BTC has been continuously flowing out of exchanges, and this trend has not yet been interrupted, with a more pronounced trend recently. Data source: coinglass
Without realizing it, 2026 has already begun. Looking back five years ago, we were still endlessly debating one thing: Is Bitcoin really a tulip bubble? Today, even in the most conservative and traditional financial circles, hardly anyone dares to ignore its presence anymore. It's not because everyone suddenly 'understands' BTC, but because it has reached a position that cannot be ignored. Recently, BTC has been trading above $92,000. To be honest, the price itself hasn't caused me much emotional reaction; rather, the market's state is more intriguing. After the CPI data release, emotions didn't swing dramatically—volatility was quickly absorbed, and the market appeared unusually restrained. More importantly, the once-ironclad 'four-year halving cycle' is quietly fading away. In its place, a new pricing logic—driven by ETFs, national strategies, and U.S. dollar liquidity—is taking shape.
Many are still asking: at this level, should we still allocate BTC? But in 2026, I actually think we should reverse the question: wouldn't the risk be greater if we don't allocate BTC? BTC is no longer a lottery-like asset for chasing 100x returns. It's becoming a tool to improve portfolio structure.
In a world where debt keeps accumulating and inflation is repeatedly rewritten, an asset with a fixed supply, extremely high liquidity, and acceptance by mainstream systems inherently has allocation value.
True belief is never All in—it's calmly incorporating it into your asset framework after understanding the structure, and then—letting time do its work.
Why is it said that BTC's 'role' has fundamentally changed?
If 2024 is the year of Bitcoin ETFs, then 2025–2026 is more like a true institutional shift. The macro environment is completely different from a few years ago. When Bitcoin begins to be discussed within the frameworks of 'national strategy' and 'financial sovereignty,' its nature has already undergone a qualitative transformation.
Meanwhile, the 'water reservoir effect' of institutions is continuously amplifying. ETFs are accumulating, public companies are accumulating, and long-term capital is quietly entering the market.
The result is twofold: first, BTC's volatility is being systematically reduced; second, its price midpoint is constantly being raised.
You'll notice a fascinating phenomenon: supply is being continuously absorbed, yet the market isn't falling into retail frenzy. This isn't a bubble—it's the state of a mature asset.
In 2026, looking back at BTC: it's no longer just 'digital gold'
Without realizing it, 2026 has already begun. Looking back five years, we were still debating whether Bitcoin was a 'tulip bubble,' but today, even in the most conservative traditional finance circles, hardly anyone dares to underestimate its presence anymore.
Recently, BTC has been trading above $92,000. Honestly, the price itself isn't the key—what matters more is the market's state. After the CPI data release, there was no sharp emotional reaction, and any pullback was quickly absorbed. The once-ironclad 'four-year halving cycle' is quietly fading away.
Today, what's driving BTC is no longer just retail sentiment, but ETFs, national strategies, and U.S. dollar liquidity. So the question has changed. It's no longer 'Is BTC still digital gold?' but rather—what's emerging is a core asset.
Brothers who play coins, don't envy investors in gold, silver, platinum, A-shares, Japanese stocks, or US stocks recently. Isn't it normal for everyone to have dumplings during the Spring Festival?
Especially A-shares, the current index hasn't even surpassed 2015, let alone 2007.
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Consensus, this concept is not discussed by many people anymore. Consensus is the foundation; only coins with consensus can sustain their rise and have community buying support during downturns. Traditional established coins ranked in the top 20 are basically all consensus-driven coins.
Old coins are still the kings of the market, none of the top ten coins by market cap are new coins. Among the top 20 coins by market cap, only one is hype. Coins are still better when they're old.
Binance's next major direction should likely be the tokenization of real-world assets similar to gold, silver, palladium, copper, etc., or launching contracts—there's probably much greater demand for this than for memecoins. Currently, gold contracts $XAU and silver $XAG already exist, and other assets will follow.
BTC is digital gold, ETH is digital oil? Wrong, the AI era has arrived, computing power is the digital oil.
Many haven't realized: the era when computing power is currency is coming earlier than we imagined. In the new cycle of the 'digital intelligence era', computing power and BTC will become the 'oil' and 'gold' of the new era.
Investing requires faith, especially for ordinary investors. Because everything beyond faith is calculable, and the smarter minds and institutions have already figured out the calculable parts. Ordinary investors can only profit from the part that cannot be calculated—the part of faith. As for the calculable aspects, they can't outsmart others.
In the crypto world, faith is in BTC, BNB, AR, and AO. The first two have already proven themselves; AR and AO are left to their fate.